ENG 121 Entire Course English Composition I (New Course )
ENG 121 Entire Course English Composition I (New Course July 2014)
ENG 121 Week 1 Assignment Practice Essay
ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Reading Strategies
ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Generating Ideas for Writing
ENG 121 Week Two Journal — Quotes
ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing
ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Outlining and Planning the Personal Essay
ENG 121 Week 3 Assignment Personal Essay — Draft
ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 Explore Persuasive, Personal, and Expository Writing
ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 Peer Review
ENG 121 Week Three Journal — Paraphrasing
ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Revision Versus Editing
ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 2 Revision Sample
ENG 121 Week Four Journal — Summarizing
ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 1 Two Options
ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Editing Checklist
ENG 121 Week 5 Final Essay Personal Essay
ENG 121 Week 1 Assignment Practice Essay
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Practice Essay. This writing exercise will help your instructor discover who you are as a writer. The essay will be used to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and it will allow the instructor the opportunity to identify grammatical, stylistic, and mechanical problems specific to each student. Do not fret over the idea that grammar, style, and mechanics will be evaluated in this assignment. This writing exercise is merely one way to take a look at any particular patterns that exist in your writing. You will earn full credit for completing this assignment as long as you follow instructions.
A personal essay is about a life experience, person, or object that has significance to you and that you tell to an audience for a reason.
Use one of the ideas for a personal essay that you came up with in the Generating Ideas for Writing discussion. Your essay should stir readers into thinking about and remembering their own experiences.
The essay should be 550 to 800 words in length. For the purposes of this essay, please do not worry about incorporating any external sources.
For more information about how to write a personal essay, please review the major elements that define personal essays in Chapter 6 of Essentials of College Writing, which include character, plot, purpose, action, and point of view. You may use first person and may incorporate dialogue (using quotes) if appropriate. Keep in mind that your essay is about connecting the story to your readers to expand their own reflection on a life experience.
The essay written for this section is diagnostic in nature. As such, you will receive a grade based solely on whether or not you submit the assignment and that it meets the minimum word requirement. Your essay will not be used to place you into classes. Your instructor will use this essay to provide you with assistance tailored to your needs.
When reading your essay, your instructor will look for the following features:
1. Structure — The consistency with which the writer identifies and maintains the essay’s main idea. Twomain points of structure include the thesis statement and topic sentences.
2. Thesis Statement — Emphasizes the main point proven in the essay. The thesis usually occurs early in the essay, most ideally as the last sentence in the introduction.
3. Topic Sentences — Occur near the beginning of each paragraph. They state what the paragraph proves and advance the main idea conveyed in the thesis statement.
4. Development — How the writer uses details and examples to evolve ideas throughout the essay and sequence of ideas presented in the essay. All of the ideas within the essay should clearly relate to the main point.
5. Style — How writers chose to express themselves. Elements of style include word choice, sentence construction, and clarity. Style elements can vary according to the audience and purpose of the writing.
6. Grammar — The instructor will evaluate your essay for common grammatical mistakes that can often affect the overall quality and clarity of your writing.
Note: Your essay should be 550 to 800 words in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Save your essay as a Microsoft Word document (.doc) or rich text file (.rtf).
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (available in the online course) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment. Remember that the criteria will not affect your grade on this essay, but it will likely apply to future writing assignments.
Finally, please note that you may use the subject for this personal essay to write your Week Three Personal Essay — Draft and your Final Essay, which is due in Week Five. If you opt to use this topic and some of this essay, you must revise the parts of this essay you use based on your instructor’s feedback and the Ashford Writing Center tutors.
ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Reading Strategies
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1. Reading Strategies. After studying the active reading strategies described in Chapter 2 of Essentials of College Writing, read Chapters 1 and 2 and the “Instructor Guidance” for Week One, apply thesurvey-question-read-recite-review (SQ3R) strategy as you reread the materials. In your initial post:
1. Discuss how this reading strategy is similar to and/or different from the way you read course material previously.
2. Explain how using SQ3R improved your comprehension of the course materials.
§ Be sure to use specific examples. You can also explore how you might apply this strategy in your
everyday life. § How might SQ3R affect the way you read the newspaper or online articles, for example? § If using the strategy did not improve your comprehension of the course materials, explain why.
3. Ask a question you have about this week’s assigned reading.
Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. For each response:
4. State what have you learned as a result of reading about your peer’s experience as well as how it was similar to or different from your own experience.
5. Share your thoughts on how your classmate’s experience informed your own experience.
6. Answer your classmates’ question about the assigned reading to the best of your knowledge.
Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional sources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Generating Ideas for Writing
Generating Ideas for Writing. Read the Final Essay assignment instructions in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. Review the techniques for generating ideas discussed in Chapter 4 of Essentials of College Writing. Develop three to five ideas for your personal essay. The draft is due in Week Three, and the Final Essay is due in Week Five. In your initial post:
a. Provide your three to five ideas (in list format) and a paragraph explaining how you used the techniques in Chapter 4 to come up with those ideas.
b. Share what you think the key elements of a narrative are (i.e., what makes a good story work).
Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. In each of your responses:
1. Explain which of your classmate’s ideas for a personal essay seem more intriguing and why.
2. Compare the techniques your classmate used to develop his or her ideas in comparison to the techniques
you chose.
3. Explain why you chose the techniques you did and whether you will try your classmate’s techniques in
the future.
Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional sources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and Reference Guidefor guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing
Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing. In Chapter 1 of Essentials of College Writing, you reviewed a comprehensive list of typical college writing tasks, and you had the opportunity to identify two tasks as strengths and two tasks as weaknesses. In Week One, you completed the Practice Essay and Grammar Assessment. In your initial post for this discussion:
1. Describe at least one task that you believe you did well on when writing the Practice Essay in Week 1.
2. Describe one task that you believe you need to work on based on your experience writing the Practice
Essay.
3. Describe three grammar errors that you had the most difficulty with on the Grammar Assessment. To be
able to do so, go into the Gradebook and click on your quiz score. When you see a question with a red “X” next to it, this signals that it was answered incorrectly.
1. Share what you plan to do to further maximize your strengths and resolve your weaknesses.
2. Use specific examples.
3. Ask a question about this week’s assigned reading.
Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references. For each response:
4. Select a classmate whose writing task strengths and weaknesses are very similar to or very different from your own and offer support for ways to resolve weaknesses.
5. Answer your classmate’s question to the best of your knowledge.
Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length and posted by Day 7. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional sources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Outlining and Planning the Personal Essay
Outlining and Planning the Personal Essay. Review Chapters 5 and 6 of Essentials of College Writingbefore beginning this post. Next, review the Introduction and Outline Worksheet (available in the online course). After reviewing the required documents, use the handout to create the following for your personal essay:
1. A comprehensive outline
2. Statement of purpose
3. An introductory paragraph
Post your outline, statement of purpose, and introductory paragraph to the discussion board. You can also upload it as a word document. Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3.
Respond to at least two classmates. In each response: a. Suggest an improvement to the organization of your classmate’s outline.
2. State whether your classmate’s purpose is clear. If it is not clear, explain what is confusing.
3. State whether the introductory paragraph gets your attention and whether the purpose is clearly conveyed
in the introductory paragraph.
ENG 121 Week 3 Assignment Personal Essay — Draft
Personal Essay — Draft. For this writing assignment, you have two choices. Please select one of the following options for your essay:
1. Describe a person, place, or object that has special meaning in your life.
2. Describe a particular moment or occurrence in your life that had special meaning to you.
Use the techniques described in sections 6.3 and 6.4 of Essentials of College Writing and expand upon the prewriting done in the discussion forum for the past three weeks to provide specific details about the person,
place, object, or event so that readers can visualize the subject and/or feel present in the story. Your description should be specific and appeal to the five senses.
This rough draft needs to be at least 550 words, and it should have a thesis statement that clearly states what you are going to be writing about. For more information about writing thesis statements, visit the Ashford Writing Center and review Chapter 5 of Essentials of College Writing.
The point of a draft is to allow your instructor to get a good sense of your organizational writing skills, examine your use of the strategies of narration or description, and provide you with feedback you can incorporate into the Final Essay that is due in Week Five.
As you write this draft, please pay attention to the areas that you struggled with in your Grammar Assessment and Practice Essay.
When submitting your draft, make sure to:
1. Proofread your work for errors in grammar, mechanics, and style.
2. Format the essay according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
3. Perform a word count check to make sure the essay is 350 to 500 words in length.
4. Save the document as a Microsoft Word or compatible .doc or .docx file.
5. Use a naming convention that includes your last name, week number, and the assignment number (e.g.,
smith_w2_a1.doc).
ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 Explore Persuasive, Personal, and Expository Writing
Explore Persuasive, Personal, and Expository Writing. Review Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Essentials of College Writing. Thus far in the course, you have been working on a personal essay of your own, and you have been writing journals that analyze the work of professional writers in their personal essays. In your initial post for this discussion:
1. Describe how point of view, structure, and tone differ in the three different types of essays explained in the textbook.
2. Explain which of the genres the journal entry most closely resembles and why.
3. Ask your peers a question you have about this week’s assigned reading.
Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Respond to two classmates. In each response:
1. Note any similarities and differences in your description of the essay types and the description your peer provided.
2. Answer your classmate’s question to the best of your knowledge.
Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length and posted by Day 7. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional sources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 Peer Review
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Peer Review. As part of the writing process, you are expected to reflect on your work and revise and edit accordingly. It is also useful to establish a community of learners in which you help edit and proofread each other’s papers. This reciprocal process will help you identify areas of strength and weakness in others’writing as well as reflect on your own work and perhaps discover similar mistakes. For this week, you will be performing a peer review on your Personal Essay — Draft before you submit it to your instructor on Day 7.
For this discussion, please either (a) upload your paper (.doc format) as a new thread with your name and title of paper, or (b) create a new thread in which you copy and paste your essay into the body of your post. The draft you share with your peers needs to be at least two double-spaced pages in length. After posting your draft, you will perform one peer review in which you will complete the “Peer Review Template”(available in the online course) and upload it as .doc file. Please review a paper written by a classmate who has not yet received feedback.
ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Revision Versus Editing
Revision Versus Editing. Read Chapter 9 of Essentials of College Writing. In your initial post for this discussion:
1. Discuss the key differences between revising and editing.
2. Provide an example of what a writer does when revising, and what a writer does when editing.
3. Explain how much time you believe a writer should spend on each task and why.
4. Include a question you have about the content of the assigned reading for the week.
Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references.
Respond to at least two of your classmates. In each response:
1. Address your classmate’s description of revising and editing.
2. Agree or disagree with your classmate’s description of each.
3. Offer examples of an editing or revising task to support your agreement/disagreement.
4. You may also respond to your classmates’ questions.
Make sure you support your comments with insights from your own reading. Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length and posted by Day 7. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional resources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 2 Revision Sample
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Revision Sample. Review Chapter 9 of Essentials of College Writing. Then, review the “Revision Checklist”(available in the online course), which will guide you through the process of reflecting and revising your personal essay. After revising your personal essay based on the checklist, post at least two pages of your revision and the checklist to the discussion board. Then, add a paragraph where you state the following:
1. The part of your essay you have decided to revise
2. How you revised it
3. What techniques or methods from the required resources in this course you used to revise your essay
Respond to at least two of your classmates. Respond to one classmate who used a different revision technique and one who used a similar revision technique. For each response:
a. Compare the resources and techniques you used for revision to those your classmate used.
b. Make one concrete suggestion about how the revision sample can be further improved. Please do not comment on grammar or stylistics — just content.
Response posts must be 125 to 200 words in length and posted by Day 7. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional resources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’sCitation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 1 Two Options
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Two Options. For this discussion post, please choose one of the following options. Responses to classmates are not required this week.
Option 1: Reflection on the Peer Review Process. Based on the feedback you received in Week Three during the peer-review process, as well as the feedback you received from your instructor and your classmates throughout the course, address the following in your post:
1. Describe the main areas of your paper that you need to work on as well as areas that your reviewers felt you did well on.
2. How will/did you remedy any areas of weakness in your paper?
3. Did your reviewer feel you did a solid job addressing your purpose in the personal essay?
4. Did you effectively reach your audience? Why, or why not?
Option 2: Primary and Secondary Sources. Based on your experience writing the journals and working on your personal essay, address the following questions in your post:
1. What are the key differences between academic writing and personal essay writing?
2. How is writing from sources different from writing about one’s personal experience?
1. What advice would you give to future students so that they may be successful in writing their journals?
2. What advice would you give to future students so that they may be successful in writing their personal
essays?
3. Reflection posts must be 300 to 400 words in length and posted by Day 3. Please address only one of the options, and clearly title your post with the option you have chosen. You are not required to respond to your peers, but you may do so if you choose. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional sources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford writing Center’sCitation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Editing Checklist
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Editing Checklist. Throughout this course, you have taken numerous quizzes and received feedback from your instructor and classmates. Starting with your Grammar Assessment and reviewing all instructor feedback and quiz results, create a list of your five most frequent errors. Add your list of five errors to the“Editing Checklist” handout (available in the online course). Next, choose two proofreading strategies from section 9.4 of Essentials of College Writing and use those strategies to edit your essay. For your initial post:
1. Attach a copy of your editing checklist.
2. Describe the two proofreading strategies that you used.
3. Explain which strategy you prefer and why.
4. Explain what the benefits and drawbacks are for each strategy.
Reflection posts must be 300 to 400 words in length and posted by Day 3. You are not required to respond to your peers, but may do so if you choose. If you have questions about how to participate in discussions, consult “About Discussions” under the Course Home menu. You are not required to support your claims with additional scholarly materials; however, should you decide to use additional sources, make sure you properly cite any references. Refer to the Ashford writing Center’s Citation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
ENG 121 Week 5 Final Essay Personal Essay
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Personal Essay
In Week Three, you wrote a personal essay draft in which you
• · Described a person, place, or object that has special meaning in your life; or
• · Described a particular moment or occurrence in your life that had special meaning to you.
This week, you will complete this draft and turn in your final personal essay. Be sure to utilize one of the writing patterns
described in Chapter 6. The personal essay must be at least 1000 words (not including the title page). Your essay must include:
1. A clear thesis statement in the introductory paragraph.
2. Specific details about the person, place, object, or event so that readers can visualize the subject and/or feel
present in the story (i.e., your essay should be specific and appeal to the five senses).
3. A conclusion paragraph.
As you are writing this essay, please pay attention to the areas that you struggled with in the Grammar Assessment and Practice Essay. Please also incorporate your instructor’s feedback on your journal assignments, your Week Three draft, and from throughout this course.
When submitting your Personal Essay, make sure to:
1. Proofread your work for errors in grammar, mechanics, and style.
2. Check that the essay is at least 1000 words.
3. Include a title page with the following:
a. Title of paper
b. Student’s name c. Course name and number d. Instructor’s name e. Date submitted
1. Begin the essay with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
2. Address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
3. End with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
4. Format the essay according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
5. Save the document as a Microsoft Word or compatible .doc or .docx file.
6. Use a naming convention that includes your last name, week number, and the assignment number (e.g., smith_w5_a1.doc).
ENG 121 Week Four Journal — Summarizing
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Journal Entry — Summarizing. This week, you continue writing your journal entries. This journal is designed to give you practice in academic writing, which is very different from the personal essay writing that you have been practicing. Academic writing entails making a point and supporting that point with information from a reputable source. There are three ways to support a point with information from a source: quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing. This week, you will practice summarizing a source and citing that source in your journal entry. Please be sure to read and review the “Example Journal Entry — Summarizing” document, which describes how to integrate quotations.
Please note that the journal assignment should not be confused with a personal journal. This activity requires organization, effective stylistics and grammar, and proper source incorporation. It is not a free-writing or reflective writing exercise.
Both of the personal essays we have read this week, “Fish Cheeks” and “Consider the Lobster,” use narrative and/or descriptive elements (refer to sections 6.3 and 6.4 in the text), and each has a clear purpose. Choose one of the essays assigned this week to write about. In 250 to 500 words:
1. State the purpose of the essay.
2. Describe one literary element being used in the essay (refer to sections 6.3 and 6.4).
3. Explain why you think that literary element is used well by the writer.
4. Incorporate a summary of the essay. Cite the essay.
5. Explain how you plan to use the literary element in your personal essay.
As you are writing this journal entry, please pay attention to the areas that you struggled with in your“Grammar Assessment” quiz and “Practice Essay” assignment.
When submitting your journal entry, make sure to:
1. Proofread your work for errors in grammar, mechanics, and style.
2. Format the journal according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Refer to the
Ashford Writing Center’s Sample APA Title Page for guidelines on formatting a title page in APA style.
3. Provide an in text citation for the section of the essay you summarize. Refer to the Ashford Writing
Center’s Comprehensive APA Reference List Models for guidelines on in text citations in APA style.
4. Provide a reference for the essay you summarize. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and
Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
5. Perform a word count check to make sure the journal is 250 to 500 words in length.
6. Save the document as a Microsoft Word or compatible .doc or .docx file.
7. Use a naming convention that includes your last name, week number, and the assignment number (e.g.,
smith_w2_a1.doc).
ENG 121 Week Three Journal — Paraphrasing
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Journal Entry — Paraphrasing. This week, you continue writing your journal entries. This journal is designed to give you practice in academic writing, which is very different from the personal essay writing that you have been practicing. Academic writing entails making a point and supporting that point with information from a reputable source. There are three ways to support a point with information from a source: quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing. This week, you will practice paraphrasing a source and citing that source in your journal entry. Please be sure to read and review the “Example Journal Entry — Paraphrasing” document, which describes how to integrate quotations.
Please note that the journal assignment should not be confused with a personal journal. This activity requires organization, effective stylistics and grammar, and proper source incorporation. It is not a free-writing or reflective writing exercise.
Both of the personal essays we have read this week, “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” and “Life Under the Chief Doublespeak Officer,” use narrative and/or descriptive elements (sections 6.3 and 6.4 in the text), and each has a clear purpose. Choose one of the essays assigned this week to write about. In 250 to 500 words:
1. State the purpose of the essay.
2. Describe one literary element being used in the essay (refer to sections 6.3 and 6.4 in the text).
1. Explain why you think that literary element is used well by the writer.
2. Incorporate a paraphrase from the essay. Cite the essay.
3. Explain how you plan to use the literary element in your personal essay.
As you are writing this journal entry, please pay attention to the areas that you struggled with in your“Grammar Assessment” quiz and “Practice Essay” assignment.
When submitting your journal entry, make sure to:
4. Proofread your work for errors in grammar, mechanics, and style.
5. Format the journal according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Refer to the
Ashford Writing Center’s Sample APA Title Page for guidelines on formatting a title page in APA style.
c. Provide an in text citation for the section of the essay you paraphrase. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Comprehensive APA Reference List Models for guidelines on in text citations in APA style.
1. Provide a reference for the essay you paraphrase. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’sCitation and Reference Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
2. Perform a word count check to make sure the journal is 250 to 500 words in length.
3. Save the document as a Microsoft Word or compatible .doc or .docx file.
4. Use a naming convention that includes your last name, week number, and the assignment number (e.g.,
smith_w2_a1.doc).
ENG 121 Week Two Journal — Quotes
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Week Two Journal — Quotes. This week, you begin writing your journal entries. This journal is designed to give you practice in academic writing, which is very different from the personal essay writing that you have been practicing. Academic writing entails making a point and supporting that point with information from a reputable source. There are three ways to support a point with information from a source: quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing. This week, you will practice quoting a source and citing that source in your journal entry. Please be sure to read and review the “Example Journal Entry — Quotes” document, which describes how to integrate quotations.
Please note that the journal assignment should not be confused with a personal journal. This activity requires organization, effective stylistics and grammar, and proper source incorporation. It is not a free-writing or reflective writing exercise.
Both of the personal essays we have read this week, “Sister Flowers” and “I Want a Wife,” use narrative and/or descriptive elements (refer to sections 6.3 and 6.4 in the text), and each has a clear purpose. Choose one of the essays assigned this week to write about. In 250 to 500 words:
1. State the purpose of the essay.
2. Describe one literary element being used in the essay (refer to sections 6.3 and 6.4 in the text).
3. Explain why you think that literary element is used well by the writer.
4. Incorporate a quote from the essay. Cite the essay.
5. Explain how you plan to use the literary element in your personal essay.
As you are writing this journal entry, please pay attention to the areas that you struggled with in your Grammar Assessment and Practice Essay.
When submitting your journal entry, make sure to:
1. Proofread your work for errors in grammar, mechanics, and style.
2. Format the journal according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Refer to the
Ashford Writing Center’s Sample APA Title Page for guidelines on formatting a title page in APA style.
1. Provide an in text citation for the section of the essay you quote. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s
Comprehensive APA Reference List Models for guidelines on in text citations in APA style.
2. Provide a reference for the essay you quote. Refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Citation and Reference
Guide for guidelines on citing sources in APA style.
3. Perform a word count check to make sure the journal is 250 to 500 words in length.
4. Save the document as a Microsoft Word or compatible .doc or .docx file.
5. Use a naming convention that includes your last name, week number, and the assignment number (e.g.,
smith_w2_a1.doc).
